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Thank you for Alzheimer's Association Support

Thank you to our office team and other staff members, Clients, professional referral sources and many other friends who made a donation to the Greater Boston Alzheimer’s Walk recently. We greatly appreciated your support of the Alzheimer’s Association’s important mission of education, awareness, advocacy–and critically, research.   You helped raise over $4,000!  [Picture above: our office team during our October 2022 Walk--see team bios. We were joined by Kaia (bottom left) and Lucy (bottom right).

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FirstLight Welcomes Kristina Torrey as Staff Development Associate

Kristina Torrey has joined FirstLight Home Care of West Suburban Boston and FirstLight Home Care of Boston-Back Bay as our Staff Development Associate.  Kristina is responsible for hiring and onboarding new members of the FirstLight caregiver team. Her most recent experience was working as an HR support specialist for a behavioral health agency. Prior to her work in behavioral health, Kristina served on various management teams in the customer service industry, helping build strong relationships with her clients. For the last four years, Kristina has been providing care for her father who has dementia. This influenced Kristina to turn her...

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Please Support FirstLight Home Care's Alzheimer's Walk Team

FirstLight Home Care of West Suburban Boston and Boston-Back Bay has been a long standing supporter of the Alzheimer’s Association and the fight to cure Alzheimer’s, a disease that affects millions of individuals and families on a daily basis.  The newest reports estimate that there are currently more than 5 million Americans age 65+ that are living with Alzheimer’s - a number expected to nearly triple by 2050. This year, our Executive Director & Co-Owner, Wendy Adlerstein, LSW, is proudly serving on the organizing committee of the Greater Boston Alzheimer’s Walk, and our office team will once again take another...

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FirstLight Welcomes Nachelle Augustin as Care Support Coordinator

Nachelle Augustin has joined FirstLight Home Care as our Care Support Coordinator.  In this new role, Nachelle performs supervisory in-home visits to clients---to support our hard-working caregivers, updates and reviews care plans, and provides ongoing oversight and training for caregivers. She also assists with scheduling and care coordination. Over the years, Nachelle has built her career path working with the elderly in many roles. With her passion to help older adults, she started her career as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), working in both home care and assisted living facilities. She then went on to obtain her undergraduate degree in...

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FirstLight Support of the Mass. Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coaltion

We are proud to be a 2022 Patron-level supporter/donor to the Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) and member of the affiliated, Massachusetts Business Immigration Coalition.   We support their efforts to expand opportunities for all foreign-born people and their children, so they can make the most of their talent and labor.  We commend MIRA's mission to help identify and remove barriers to integration, working with local and state leaders as well as nonprofits and businesses to craft more inclusive policies that benefit the entire communities. With a predominantly foreign-born workforce, FirstLight Home Care of West Suburban Boston and Boston-Back...

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New Care Support Coordinator Position: We're Adding to our Office Team

As our service to clients continues to grow, we are once again, expanding our office staff.  We are a friendly, fun, and upbeat, team-oriented work environment. The Care Support Coordinator is a vital, new role at FirstLight Home Care of West Suburban Boston and Boston Back-Bay. This full-time position helps ensure continuity of care and the highest quality care, by visiting our devoted staff of professional caregivers while they are working in the homes of our clients. When not visiting clients, this hybrid role will manage a small caseload and help to implement and maintain schedules for clients and caregivers . Providing...

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FirstLight Welcomes Melissa Coutts as Care Coordinator

Melissa Coutts has joined FirstLight Home Care of West Suburban Boston and FirstLight Home Care of Boston-Back Bay as a Care Coordinator.  Melissa oversees the scheduling and performance of the FirstLight caregiver team, reporting to Melissa Tarr, Manager of Client Care Services. Melissa was an Advanced Caregiver for six years and has a strong knowledge of what it takes to provide outstanding home care. Melissa provided personal care, companionship and day-to-day accommodations for her clients. She is organized and detail-oriented in all that she does. Melissa's most recent years of experience include working with customers and loans at a very...

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FirstLight Welcomes Amy Auger-Hughes as HR Assistant on Recruiting Team

Amy Auger-Hughes has joined FirstLight Home Care of West Suburban Boston and FirstLight Home Care of Boston-Back Bay as a Human Resources Assistant.  Amy supports the recruitment process of finding the most qualified of caregivers to join the FirstLight team.  After graduating from Fitchburg State College with her B.S. in Early Childhood Education and Business, Amy began her career working in the field of Early Childhood Education ensuring high quality education for children from 6 weeks – 12 years old.  Amy has always been passionate about teaching and working with young children. In addition to direct work with children, Amy later began working at corporate child care centers and was able...

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Care Coordinator Position with our Office Care Team--We're Hiring!

As our service to clients continues to grow, we are once again, expanding our office staff.  We are a friendly, fun, and upbeat, team-oriented work environment. We are seeking another Care Coordinator who will be responsible for case management of our home care clients which includes coordination and scheduling of services between clients and caregivers, implementing of schedules, ensuring adequate staffing, and continuity of care to best meet the needs of our clients. This is a full-time position reporting to the Manager of Client Care Services. This is a great opportunity for someone who holds a Bachelor's Degree and has an interest...

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FirstLight Home Care Welcomes Hillary Tarr as Manager of Client Care Services

Hillary Tarr has joined FirstLight Home Care of West Suburban Boston as Manager of Client Care Services. In this role, Hillary manages the office’s care coordination team, including oversight of all scheduling, client service, and the performance of the FirstLight caregiver team.  Hillary reports to Executive Director and Co-Owner, Wendy Adlerstein, LSW.  Jenny Wu, who previously held the Manager of Client Care Services position and has been on-board with the agency since late 2017, has been named our new Manager of Operations. Prior to joining FirstLight Home Care, Hillary worked in the senior living industry, helping seniors make the transition...

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